Opposition leader María Corina Machado has no doubt that the Venezuelan population is prepared to participate in new “impeccable elections” to choose everything and allow the transition to democracy.
«The country is united and cries out for its right to freely choose all of us who have the right to choose. We want elections to choose everything. Legitimize with our participation in impeccable elections that will be an example for the planet,” the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner said categorically when speaking virtually at the press conference of the Democratic Unitary Platform, which took place this Sunday in Caracas.
“Today we are ready to move forward because there is no other society in the world that is better prepared for democracy and for a genuine and complete transition than Venezuelan society,” said Machado.
The former deputy affirmed that there is a political leadership aligned, organized and ready to “do what they have to do”, without giving more details. He also assured that the Government in charge of Delcy Rodríguez “is being forced to dismantle its own structures of repression, corruption, and crime,” the EFE agency reported.
Machado reiterated that she will return to Venezuela “very soon” to tour the entire territory – although this time she did not specify the date either – after she left the country last December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway after spending a year in hiding to avoid being arrested by the authorities, who accuse her of being violent and calling for a military invasion.
Prior to its intervention, the PUD presented a roadmap to hold “free elections”, which includes the appointment of new authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and achieving a transition in the country.
The secretary general of the bloc, Roberto Enríquez, indicated that the transition has three stages: stabilization, economic recovery and reconciliation, as well as the holding of elections, a plan almost identical to the one proposed by the United States after capturing Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, on January 3.
With information from EFE
